Senate Race

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Jack Conway is a democrat running for the Senate spot for Kentucky. His focuses are on Cutting the Deficit, Small Businesses, Protecting Social Security and Wall Street Reform. His plan on cutting the deficit is to save over 430 billionover the next ten years. His plan on small businesses is he will create a Small Business Loan Fund, capitalized with $30 Billion and smaller banks with credit will get smaller rates. His side and what he has done with Social security, has protected Kentucky seniors from elder abuse, tripling the number of elder abuse cases investigated. He’s also saved over $100 million of taxpayers’ money and kept drug prices low by suing big pharmaceutical companies who overcharged Kentucky’s Medicaid program.

Conway and what he thinks he needs to focus on. Issues
Cutting the Deficit, Small Businesses, Protecting Social Security, Wall Street Reform, Veterans, Miners.


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Rand Paul is a republican running for the Kentucky senate spot. Rand is an important person because he does eye surgery. He has practiced medicine and performed eye surgery for 17 years. Rand owns his own ophthalmology practice, which employs 3 full-time staff members. Mr. Paul opposes all federal bailouts of private industry. America is the land of opportunity, to succeed and to fail. It’s time our government starts promoting responsibility. He is more about protection and having a safe place to live for the Americans. He wants Americans to work by themselves. This seems like it can be a good and bad idea for Americans and the country as a whole.

Rand Paul and what he thinks he needs to focus on. Issues
TAXES & DEBT, HEALTH CARE, FEDERAL RESERVE, PRIVACY & LIBERTY, ENERGY INNOVATION, LIFE.


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Two articles and actions that may change the election for the Kentucky senate race.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/17/kentucky-senate-race-turns-bitter-debate/
Kentucky Senate Race Turns Bitter During Debate

In the article Rand Paul was under attack by Jack Conway about Rand Paul's religion. Many people from the politics and also other people in the U.S. Rand Paul said, "We will try to keep the debate on a higher tone,"(cnn.com). Paul also said, "I hope you will leave my church, my family and my religion out of it"(cnn.com). This action by Jack Conway may effect the outcome of the election for him and also maybe for Rand Paul. The election maybe changed by this for Conway because he can win if people take offense on how he said women are treated when worshiping Buddha. The election can be changed for Rand Paul because he can win the election. He can win the election by how Conway targeted Paul's religion many people will and may take offense because of Conway's actions.

http://www.kentucky.com/2010/10/31/1502139/outside-groups-pour-money-into.html
Outside groups pour money into Kentucky Senate race

The second article is about how many people and mostly the people of Rand Paul have been attacking Jack Conway. These attacks have came to Conway because of his opposing candidate Rand Paul. The article said, "outside groups have spent more than $4 million attacking Conway — nearly as much as the candidate has spent on his own race, according to federal campaign finance records"(www.Kentucky.com). This can be a bad thing for Conway. It may be bad for Conway because it shows how much help Rand Paul is getting to try and win over Conway. This also shows how much help Paul is getting and how much Conway does not have. This can also be good for Conway. It can be good because it may show to some people that Rand Paul stands for attacking people and may show that its more about money instead of the people and the actual politics.


Who has more coverage?

Rand Paul is getting more coverage during the election and campaign trails. He is getting more coverage I think because he is getting more help from a close and hidden source. This is unfair to Conway but that is how politics are. One person will always have more than the other.

Media in the election.
The media in this election is being really good and may cause some people to change their votes. I say that the media is good because it is covering all of the race and election and also it is covering the debates. The reason why the media is bad is because it may cause some people to change their votes on what has happened between the two candidates. The whole story about how Conway attacked Rand Paul about his religion is a good way to make people not vote for Jack Conway.

Who is in the lead?
The person who is in the lead right now and who is probably going to win the race is going to be Rand Paul. He is up on Conway 51.8 to 40.8. He is at a +11.0 over Conway.


Who won and why.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/02/rand-paul-defeats-jack-conway_n_765987.html

This article states that Jonh Conway lost and Rand Paul won.
Another interesting fact is that Rand Paul's father is a two time presidential candidate.
Many say that the reason why he got so many votes and the reason why he won was because of how his father is popular in politics.